A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding – Business Insider

On Monday, President Trump’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a French multinational oil company. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The company, TotalEnergies, had spent that amount during the Biden administration to secure two leases allowing it to build…

As Americans prepare their Thanksgiving feasts, they may find themselves in need of a last-minute ingredient. But depending on their local grocery store’s holiday schedule, they might be out of luck for scoring that extra bag of cranberries or box of stuffing.  It’s best to plan ahead, given that some retail and grocery chains will…

OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to scale to 1 gigawatt. The move is part of a broader push to deepen the company’s enterprise and infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest-growing markets. OpenAI announced on Thursday that the partnership…

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Getty Images Skims, the shapewear brand co-founded by celebrity and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian, says it is now valued at $5bn (£2.93bn) after raising $225m of new funding. The company says it plans to use the money from investors, including an arm of Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs, to open more shops…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Dec. 2, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The S&P 500 closed relatively unchanged on Tuesday as Wall Street looked ahead to this week’s interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve. The broad market index traded around the…

On the first day of full 2 Line service between Seattle and the Eastside, 205,000 transit riders hopped on light rail trains, Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine announced Thursday. Along with marchers headed to and from a No Kings rally and those headed to several other major events on March 28, transit riders out to…